I used the Android Multitool to handle the decompile and recompile and it seemed to all work as advertised.
So then I booted into recovery mode and pushed the updated framework-res.apk file over to the tablet via adb push and it reports a successful copy. But when I reboot the device, not only are the changes not showing up, but if I browse the tablet's /system/framework directory using ES FIle Explorer, the framework-res.apk file is still timestamped 11/16/2013, like it has never been updated.

What am I missing or doing wrong here? I've beat my head against the wall for hours on this and can't get it to take

I used the Android Multitool to handle the decompile and recompile and it seemed to all work as advertised.
So then I booted into recovery mode and pushed the updated framework-res.apk file over to the tablet via adb push and it reports a successful copy. But when I reboot the device, not only are the changes not showing up, but if I browse the tablet's /system/framework directory using ES FIle Explorer, the framework-res.apk file is still timestamped 11/16/2013, like it has never been updated.

What am I missing or doing wrong here? I've beat my head against the wall for hours on this and can't get it to take

thanks

OK hopefully if you're having the same problem and stumble upon this post it will help you as well. As far as I can tell, the issue was because that framework-res file is marked read-only on the file system and for some reason even though ADB was reporting that it had transferred the file successfully I don't think it ever was. Here's how I resolved it.

1)power off the device
2)boot into TWRP
3)choose file-manager (under 'Advanced')
4)navigate to the /system/framework directory and select the framework-res.apk file
5)click the CHMOD 755 button to set the permissions to rwx
6)from your PC execute the ADB push command...for example if my framework-res.apk is in the same directory as ADB.exe

adb push framework-res.apk /system/framework/framework-res.apk

it should give you a message like 4109 KB/s (34859291 bytes in 8.284s) or something similar

I used the Android Multitool to handle the decompile and recompile and it seemed to all work as advertised.
So then I booted into recovery mode and pushed the updated framework-res.apk file over to the tablet via adb push and it reports a successful copy. But when I reboot the device, not only are the changes not showing up, but if I browse the tablet's /system/framework directory using ES FIle Explorer, the framework-res.apk file is still timestamped 11/16/2013, like it has never been updated.

What am I missing or doing wrong here? I've beat my head against the wall for hours on this and can't get it to take

thanks

Not sure which tab you have but if you have the 10" then you can install the latest Pimpdroid rom that had multiuser built in. It's not as elegant as the Samsung multiuser but does the job.

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